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Job overview

Are you passionate about people and making a difference to others? Are you a team player, yet able to have challenging conversations with compassion? Do you have experience of facilitating and enabling cultural, behavioural and systematic change through excellent organisational development skills, which resulted in improvement? If so, we are looking for you!

An exciting and challenging opportunity has arisen within the Widening Access, Equality and Careers (WAEC) Team to appoint to a Widening Access, Equality, Careers and Organisational Development (WAEC & OD) Facilitator post. This post will play a key role in supporting the delivery our People Strategy, the Health Board’s vision for a high-quality organisation and the embedding of our ‘One Bay Way’. In particular, the post holders will use their specialist knowledge to identify, plan, design, deliver and evaluate the Widening Access, Equality & Career Development Programmes and Bespoke Organisational Development activities to meet organisational objectives and workforce requirements under the direction of the Head of Widening Access, Equality and Careers. The core programmes in the portfolio include, but not limited to; cultural conversations, workforce equality related activity, coaching, mentoring, personal development programmes (Optimise and Optimise Advanced).

Main duties of the job

You will be an exceptional and experienced facilitator and OD practitioner, working across all areas of the Health Board and in partnership with Service Group Leads and HR Business Partners for the commissioning of bespoke WAEC & OD Consultancy work. You will also work in partnership with the Education & Learning and Culture, OD & Staff Experience Teams and wider Workforce colleagues to deliver organisational development priorities. You will be able to demonstrate experience of compassionate leadership, personal values, facilitating and using a wide range of OD and specialist tools and techniques and have a detailed understanding of widening access, equality, leadership, culture and behaviour improvement research theory and practice.

We welcome relevant applications from both clinical and non-clinical professions and backgrounds, and those with the transferrable and skills and knowledge from across sectors.

Working for our organisation

We believe staff are our best asset and we want you to be happy and confident about starting your career here in Swansea Bay University Health Board. 

As one of the biggest healthcare groups in the UK we can offer a wealth of professional training and development opportunities in an innovative, forward-thinking organisation.

You might be a nurse or doctor, maybe you specialise in a health science/therapy or can offer skills in one of our support services - we have a job for you.

There are also apprenticeships, work placements and volunteering roles available.

We are an inclusive employer and welcome applications from everyone whatever their sex; religion or belief; race; age; sexual orientation; gender identity or, whether they are pregnant or have recently been on maternity leave, married or are in a civil partnership; or, whether they are disabled.

Our values - Caring For Each Other, Working Together and Always Improving, show that our commitment to equality is at the heart of everything we do.

If you want excellent career and training opportunities while living on the doorstep of some of Europe's most spectacular scenery, with all the benefits of a thriving and cosmopolitan city - look no further.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

We strongly recommend that you read the requirements set out in the job description and person specification, encouraging you to contact Katy Goss, Head of Widening Access, Equality and Careers: to discuss the position in more detail.

Person specification

Qualifications & Knowledge

Essential criteria

Educated to Masters Degree level or equivalent professional experience

Sound knowledge of OD and techniques of delivery, assessment, and evaluation

Accredited or experienced Coach

Desirable criteria

Organisational Development Practitioner

Psychometrics Practitioner i.e. MBTI

Experience

Essential criteria

Experience of Managing Change and Organisational Development within complex working environments

Experience of delivering Learning & Development interventions to achieve cultural change

Experience of delivering a wide range of OD programmes but specifically leadership development programmes at senior management level, experience of leading on the implementation of projects

Evidence of return from investment of personal development programmes, interventions, and practices

Aptitude & Abilities

Essential criteria

Adhere to and can demonstrate SBU Values & Behaviours

Strong analytical skills dealing with complex issues, ability to plan and prioritise and concentrate frequently when under pressure and subject to interruptions

Desirable criteria

Welsh Speaker (Level 1)

Swansea Bay University Health Board is committed to supporting its staff and processes to fully embrace the need for bilingualism thereby enhancing service users experience. In our commitment to increase the number of staff able to communicate in Welsh with patients and professionals, we would particularly welcome applications from Welsh speakers.

Equality remains at the centre of the Health Boards policy-making, service delivery and employment practices. We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race, religion, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.

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Applicant requirements

Welsh language skills are desirable